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Claude's New Memory System, Explained

Claude's New Memory System, Explained

Sep 1, 2026

Claude unified memory across Chat and Cowork with a new hierarchical architecture built on progressive disclosure. Here's what changed, why it matters, and how to get more out of it.

Next Gen Zap Workflows: Building Automation in Code

Next Gen Zap Workflows: Building Automation in Code

Aug 25, 2026

Zapier’s Next Gen Zap Workflows move automation from drag-and-drop builders into TypeScript. Here’s what code-first workflows unlock, and what the learning curve looks like.

AI Skills in Notion Just Got a Lot More Useful

AI Skills in Notion Just Got a Lot More Useful

Aug 16, 2026

Three recent updates to Notion's AI skills (file attachments, automatic invocation, and team-wide defaults) have closed most of the gap with Claude. Here's what changed and why it matters.

How Knoxx Foods Built the Operational Foundations for AI

How Knoxx Foods Built the Operational Foundations for AI

Jul 14, 2026

How Knoxx Foods built the operational foundations that make AI actually useful.

How NTUC automated social listening with Zapier, OpenAI, and ExportComments

How NTUC automated social listening with Zapier, OpenAI, and ExportComments

Oct 22, 2025

How NTUC cut hours of manual work by automating social media comment exports, AI analysis, and reporting


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How Claude Cowork Does My Job While I Walk the Kids to School

How Claude Cowork Does My Job While I Walk the Kids to School

Apr 21, 2026

Five layers — files, plugins, sub-agents, memory, and scheduled tasks — that turn Claude Cowork from a chatbot into the coworker running ops before you've had coffee.

Your CRM's $2,500 Enrichment Feature Costs Me Half a Cent Per Contact

Your CRM's $2,500 Enrichment Feature Costs Me Half a Cent Per Contact

Apr 14, 2026

We built a contact enrichment pipeline for our Notion CRM using Apollo.io, HarvestAPI via Apify, and Zapier — for roughly $0–5/month. Here's the full architecture, the cost breakdown, and why CRM vendors charging $2–3K/year for the same capability is a broken model.

What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)

What I Learned Optimising a Multi-Turn AI Agent (the Hard Way)

Apr 6, 2026

Lessons from building multi-turn AI agents across Zapier Agents, Notion Custom Agents, and Relevance AI — covering context window management, system prompt bloat, sub-agent trade-offs, and context rot.

Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way

Skills > Prompts: How I Teach AI to Work My Way

Mar 25, 2026

How reusable AI skills across Claude, Notion, and Linear have replaced prompt engineering as the highest-leverage way to make AI tools actually useful.

What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?

What If Your CRM Worked the Way You Do?

Mar 10, 2026

We built a custom CRM in Notion — powered by 30+ Zapier automations, AI agents, and deep integrations — that tracks contacts, emails, meetings, deals, invoices, and leads automatically. Here's the full architecture.

The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic

The Future of Work Isn't (Fully) Agentic

Mar 4, 2026

When Meta's AI safety director lost 200 emails to a runaway agent, it wasn't a hack — it was context window compaction silently dropping her safety instruction. Here's why the future of automation is selectively agentic, and how to combine AI judgement with deterministic guardrails that actually hold.